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The New York Sunday Tribune / Russell-Morgan print. – Historic Reproduction

The New York Sunday Tribune / Russell-Morgan print., Cincinnati : U.S. Printing Co., 1899. — vintage poster
The New York Sunday Tribune / Russell-Morgan print., Cincinnati : U.S. Printing Co., 1899.. Vintage poster from the New York City collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The New York Sunday Tribune / Russell-Morgan print. comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Printed in Cincinnati in 1899, this color poster promotes the New York Sunday Tribune, and its railroad theme points to how city papers reached readers beyond New York. By the late 1890s, trains carried Sunday editions to towns across the region, so a paper's circulation depended on the rail network as much as on its newsroom. Cincinnati was a major center of American color lithography at the time, and the Russell-Morgan firm named in the title was among the shops producing bold advertising posters like this one. The piece shows how commercial printing and the expanding railroads together shaped the mass press of the period.

Created / publishedCincinnati : U.S. Printing Co., 1899.
Medium1 print (poster) : color.
GenreAdvertisements 1890-1900.Posters 1890-1900.Prints Color 1890-1900.
SubjectsNewspapers--1890-1900. Railroads--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,144 × 1,446 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216647

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